Truth Quotes

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.